News Round-Up

• “Massive spike in excess deaths sparks calls for an ‘urgent investigation’: NHS crisis is blamed for nearly 3,000 more Brits than usual dying each week’” – Some 17,381 deaths were registered in England and Wales in the seven days to January 13th – 2,837 above average for the time of year – the highest since the U.K.’s second Covid wave, reports the Mail.
• “Excess deaths highest since pandemic second wave – and less than 5% are from Covid” – High flu rates and record NHS waiting times are blamed by the Telegraph.
• “Deaths in England surge again” – The mortality crisis continues, but not in countries that did not heavily use mRNA Covid jabs, argues Alex Berenson.
• “Life after Zero Covid: markets bet big on China” – Vast inflows are flooding the Chinese stock market — at the expense of other countries, writes Philip Pilkington in UnHerd.
• “Covid and the disturbing facts my fellow-scientists don’t want to hear” – Professor Robert Clancy in TCW on the vaccine red flags the medical profession has shut its eyes to.
• “Why N95 Masks Fail to Stop the Spread” – Megan Mansell in Brownstone sets out the case against N95 masks for Covid in full detail.
• “The Downfall of the Gurus” – Jeffrey Tucker in the Epoch Times on the failure of the libertarian movement when we needed it most.
• “How the residents of Wuhan ended up questioning China’s Covid-control playbook” – In recent months, many Wuhan residents who had taken pride in enduring a strict 76-day lockdown in the early days of China’s Zero-Covid response became more critical of how the epidemic was being handled, according to the South China Morning Post.
• “Is that a cricket in my bread?” – EU bureaucrats want to add crushed cricket flour to bread, warns Laura Dodsworth.
• “A Weltanschauung causal model of excess deaths” – Norman Fenton and Martin Neil with a detailed “exposition on models and variables that might explain excess deaths”.
• “Pandemic Strategies, Lessons and Consequences” – Thorsteinn Siglaugsson reports on a hugely successful conference in Stockholm – shunned by the mainstream media, of course.
• “Ivermectin prescriptions in the U.K.” – ‘Bartram’ a.k.a. Amanuensis wonders what’s behind the sharp increase in NHS ivermectin prescriptions in 2022.
• “The Copper Conundrum” – Willis Eschenbach in WUWT runs the numbers finds there isn’t even enough copper to get us to Net Zero 2050, let alone sustain it for any length of time.
• “The phoney ethics of ESG” – Davos Man has a new fixation, says Ashley Rindsberg in UnHerd.
• “The Left has declared war on the poor” – The U.K. is engaged in an all-out economic war on poor and even middle income families, all in the name of Net Zero and greater equality, writes Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
• “Apartheid in the C of E – with whites the victims” – Karen Harradine in TCW on the woke ‘reverse’ racism that now pervades the Church of England and penalises white people.
• “Has a Quran-burning protest ended Sweden’s NATO dream?” – Sweden’s commitment to free speech wavers as offence taken by Turkish Muslims threatens its NATO application, writes Fraser Nelson in the Spectator.
• “‘This rapist decided he was no longer a man only after appearing in court on a rape charge’: Fury as sex attacker transitions before trial and is sent to a women’s prison – despite warnings about Sturgeon’s gender change law” – Sending a rapist to a women’s prison – what could go wrong? Reported in the Mail.
• “Twenty years ago Australians were prosecuted for saying masks work against viruses” – Now they get arrested for not wearing masks during viral outbreaks, tweets Tony Heller.

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